When you think of your National Forests, you probably don’t envision military jets screaming overhead, radiation-spewing mobile transmitters parked alongside public access roads or high-tech war games.
Yet that’s just ...

Like many Americans, you may have fond memories of spending the dog days of summer next to a beautiful river, lake or stream. Each summer, Americans and their families flock to the waters that course through our public lands ...

The Cliven Bundy saga playing out in the national media has the FSEEE staff and board angry and frustrated. Not simply at livestock rancher Bundy, who is a racist bully and behaving accordingly, nor at the radical wackos ...

Twenty-five years ago, a handful of principled and dedicated Forest Service workers united to defend our National Forests from industrial exploitation. They founded Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics—a groundbreaking ...

High in the Rocky Mountains, in Wyoming’s Bighorn National Forest, 400-year-old spruce and fir trees blanket a mountainside called Crater Ridge. For almost half a millennia, this forest has survived and thrived in the extreme ...

At FSEEE, we are combating one of the greatest threats to our public lands today: the unregulated use of hydraulic fracturing or fracking.
At stake is the most precious resource provided by our public lands: clean water. ...

Ground Truth

March 30, 2015 — Mountain pine beetles have killed millions of acres of forests across the West, but they haven’t made wildfires worse, according to a study conducted by University of Colorado researchers.
Sarah Hart, the study’s lead author, said hot, dry weather—not insect infestation—was responsible for the spread of wildfires during the three most active fire seasons in the past decade.
“Forest fuels may get drier as a result of fuels being dead from insect infestations,” Hart ...Read More

Your National Forests

It is important to highlight the Forest Service’s successes, so we have launched a campaign to bring the story of the Siuslaw National Forest’s ecosystem restoration to every Forest Service office in the nation.
We are ...Read More